George F. Gao

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George Fu Gao (born November 15, 1961 in Ying County, Shanxi Province , Chinese  高 福 , Pinyin Gāo Fú ) is a Chinese virologist and immunologist . He is the general director of the China Disease Control and Prevention Center .

Origin and career

Gao Fu was born in Shanxi Province in 1961. He studied veterinary medicine at the Provincial Agricultural University. According to his own statement, however, he did not want to take up the profession of veterinarian. After graduating, he went to Beijing Agricultural University . There he stayed as a lecturer in virology .

Scientific career

In 1995 Gao received his PhD from Oxford University . He then worked at Oxford, Harvard and the University of Calgary . In 2004, he accepted a position as head of the Institute of Microbiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research there included the molecular structures of T-cell recognition, mechanisms of the fusion of enveloped viruses with the host cell and transmission between species. His best-known publications include the description of the transmission mechanism of the influenza A virus H5N1 from birds to mammals and the genetic origins of the avian influenza H7N9 . In 2014 he worked in Sierra Leone at the CCDC's mobile test laboratory during the Ebola virus epidemic from 2014 to 2016 .

In 2019, Gao was elected to the National Academy of Sciences as a foreign member .

During the coronavirus pandemic , he was one of the authors of the first internationally published epidemiological descriptions of the new virus.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short profile on the City University of Hong Kong website, last accessed on June 11, 2020
  2. ↑ Geoff Watts: George F Gao: head of China CDC signals a more global outlook. The Lancet, July 28, 2018, doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (18) 31658-1
  3. ↑ Brief profile on the website of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in English, last accessed on June 11, 2020
  4. ↑ George F. Gao et al. : An Airborne Transmissible Avian Influenza H5 Hemagglutinin Seen at the Atomic Level. Science, June 21, 2013, doi: 10.1126 / science.1236787
  5. ↑ George F. Gao et al. : Origin and diversity of novel avian influenza A H7N9 viruses causing human infection: phylogenetic, structural, and coalescent analyzes. The Lancet, May 1, 2013, doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (13) 60938-1
  6. ↑ George F. Gao, Yong Feng: On the ground in Sierra Leone. Science 31 Oct 2014: Vol. 346, Issue 6209, pp. 666 doi: 10.1126 / science.346.6209.666
  7. ^ Jon Cohen: Ne pas porter de masque pour se protéger du coronavirus est une “grande erhur”, affirme un scientifique chinois haut placé. Le Monde, March 31, 2020, (French), link , last accessed on June 11, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Gao, George F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gao, Fu; Gao, George Fu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese virologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Ying (Shuozhou)